A Good Item For The Civic Hybrid

I hate to admit it, but my son, the car enthusiast was right. I have an 05 civic hybrid with about 4600 miles on it. And although it runs reasonably well, I still felt it could use a little help in its quest to drive like a "real" car. I just installed a K&N air filter, and this seems to have been the trick. The car now accelerates and gets the kind of gas mileage I assumed it should have when I purchased it. In mixed city/highway, it's getting in the low to mid forties as opposed to the high thirties before adding the filter. Furthermore, it is smoother and accelerates on a par with most of the othe cars I tried to match up to today. In any case, I think it's worth the investment.

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Ted Kaplan
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"Ted Kaplan" wrote in news:Czf3g.12436$ snipped-for-privacy@newsread1.news.atl.earthlink.net:

How long do you intend on keeping the car?

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Abrasives in your combustion chamber are not conducive to engine longevity.

Also, yhere have been reports of IAC motors and throttle bodies sludging up with the particulates allowed through by K&N-type filters.

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TeGGeR®

It performs better beause it's less of an iairflow impedment. Its the difference between trying to breathe through a sieve's mesh, and trying to breathe through a sponge. Try it for yourself. Then go somewhere dusty and try it.

Hope your engine likes the taste of grit.

You could probably have saved yourself a lot of money, and just stuck a pair of tights across the air filter box, or the intake end, or hell, just not bothered at all. iirc, the tights actually are a better filter than your K+N.

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flobert

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Theodore Kaplan

"Theodore Kaplan" wrote in news:yiz3g.12764$ snipped-for-privacy@newsread1.news.atl.earthlink.net:

Yeah, except that every speck of that dirt has to scrape past your rings before it gets into your oil. You like sandpapering your rings and bores? I don't.

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TeGGeR®

Sure. Once the piston rings bounce over that little quartz particle at about 60 mph, the oil will pick it up and maybe run it through the bearings a couple times before it gets caught by the oil filter.

Check the oil change schedule for dusty conditions. I bet it is less than a 5000 interval.

Maybe your son could help you prove this. Have him switch the K&N with the stock filter randomly after each fill-up. You check the gas milage and subjectively rate the performance on each tank. I have to say that I am skeptical that the difference is as much as you say but I could be wrong.

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Gordon McGrew

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